The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-10-11

want me legislature TO shake hlm out OF the
roeo: Inc Encouragement has given 1t as ms
OPINION that georgia has MOI the shadow OF
pohd 1or the state road. Would any other
man be allowed to hold the road one moment
WIthoV. ooha Ioof olu meaSlS georgia AZ
lows nm TO hold 1t without bond! We
snonid make nm give good bond, or say:
president Brown, retire!
WE OLD, GRAY HEADED SINNERS
may suffer TINS because our records are behind
Us, pm You young men, ambitious OF qlstlnc-
non, should say; 'Iouch not taste not, handle
nor, tIiS unclean tulllS! anu protect the rights
ana property oil The people. Applause
The act OF 1876 provided that the expenses
should never exceed $500 per annum, and yet
they have gone up to $1,000. We have got
clean away from the act of 1876. The eN-
penses were to he for the penitentiary, and not
for camps.
President Brown did not approve the act
of 1881. That act provided that at the eNpira-
ton of their terms of service, ConVictS should
be provided with suit of clothes and money
TO pay transportation home. When L asked
President Brown if there had ever been adj
verse legislation to the leSsces, he replied, i'll
terms as
COLD AS AN ICIcLE,
that there had i'll the passage of the act of
1881, and TO that extent had robbed him.
eyes, these convicts that had worked for
Brown and Scayer at 81 cents per day, at that
hell hole in Dade county, were TO be turned
out naked and friendlesS from the mines!
wv. Il. Lowe, as wild, wicked. and hayward
n man OF the world as am, who does not go
to the sanctuary with white crayat on, pro-
posed this Humanitarian measure, which Pres
ident Brown says robbed him. The idea OF
GEORGIA EVER RoDDING JOE BROWN
in any way orunder any circumstances, isnot
TO be entertained. Has he not had Georgla's
property III his hands, the state road and her
convicts? 1t makes me think OF sweat boxes
i'll Columbus. of shipping cotton from Will
mington, and collards from N1illedgeyille!
The act of 1881 is Pandoras. box. Grand
juries are authorized TO monkey around
WITH CHEAP RELIGION
and appoint chaplams for these camps. These
migratory chaplans have cost 81 100, and yet
there are camps i'll which no sermons have
been preached for three months.
The trouble III the act OF 1881 is IN the APP
pontment of the whipping bosses. The lessees
appoint them i'll writing, subject to the written
prevail OF the governor. They are paid and
controlled by the lesSees, but IN order to re-
lieve themselves of liability the lesseeS say
How dare you forfeit my lease when the con-
yicts are whipped by your OWE office?
The committee OF which / was chairman
| had no money and we paid our own expenses.
| The railroad passes were withdrawn, and VIC
had difficulties to contend with. We had to
abandon the inspection of camps and convicts.
We placed our Investigation ON a higher plane
than the disclosures from convjcts. We OBJ
tanned our testimony from the lessees and the
mon they employed, and have got
"W. b. Lowe and j. Il. Brown are my warm
personal friends. | have no favors to ask, no
friends to serve, no enemies to punish, no new
field. You could not get me to touch a convict,
with q fOrty-foot pole, sweetened with mo-
lasses.
HoNEY-cOMBED AND sUGAR-CoATED.
! denomce here as Illegal. and as an Infamous
swindle from 4 TO u. There's money in it;
if there was not. they would abandon it like
ticks from dead COW. There's millions in it,
and they are getting it.
''When John w. NelmS countermanded the
order of ". D. Grant, compelling his conyicts
| to make march on Sunday, Grant attacked
| him about it. and Nelms was compelled to
| leave his office Grant lives in palatial man
| sion on Peachtree street. Let us consider this
! sweet lease contract. Governor Smith, in his
| order, recites: Whereas, in the opinion of the
| governor. none of said bids should be accent
| ed Remember, the bids were made three
| years in advance of the expiration of the
! lease of 1874, and by the lessess only, who
were the only ones knowing the value of con-
| Vict labor
"Mr. W. B. Lowe thought that Governor
| Brown and Colonel Tom Alexander would not
! hang around unless there
WAS SUGAR IN TIE GoURD,
| and he came in and raised the bids
Just here / am in receipt of intelligence
| that the state treasurer has paid bill OF $72
| Tor the investigation OF q convict camp by q
grand jury in Dade county. This is the way
your money GOES. 1t is q damna6le sWlndle,
| conceived and perpctuatcd i'll fraud, and IS
ROBBERY BY THE Wholesale.
Governor Gordon could now lease out the
| conYlcts Tor S64,WlO instead OF S13,OO0. Ii the
! leSseeS have not violated the act, let any mem
! Der on this floor get up and assert it, and will
sit down. pause for reply. They worked
| the coDyicts on the Sabbath day. IT is true.
! Governor Mcdaniel consented to this, but IT
was nevertheless violation OF the act. The
| question is. how much violation do you insist
| on before FORGETTING the lease?
| cone OF the lessecs is styled
THE PIoUs BoNDURANr
| of Augusta, and wears auccktic as immaculate
as Bishop Elliott. He gave the conYictS medi-
| cine out OF the same Bottle Read the testi-
mony OF Colonel Towers, who visited the Au-
| gusta camp mcog, and saw tie medicine dealt
out Tor two hours. lie describes the dinner as
'suSh.'
Governor Smith said to IL. q. Lockett that
the lease contract was a 'damnable outrage ON
the people OF Georgia, and to another lessee
you know that the old made IS no bid Tor the
conXlctS. 1T Is as"mdle on the state.
~ on want the proof. I've got IT, we OK
| pend S9,VD to collect Sl6,OO0. suppose Joe
Brown was eliminated from the contract, could
another contract he made Tor ii cents per day
SOME FIGURES.
Here IS paper that costs me SO. 1t IS
worth 1t. The state OF Arkansas leases ont ol2
! convicts at SIN years Ior S39,42O per annum,
net. ..
Alabama leases out or conylctS Tor S20,3oo